Marine mammal stranding response coordination that actually works when you're on a freezing beach at 3am with no signal
Flense Desk connects stranding network volunteers, marine biologists, and government agencies the moment a cetacean or pinniped hits a coastline anywhere on the Eastern Seaboard. It mobilizes responders, tracks necropsy findings and tissue sample chain-of-custody, and auto-files NOAA Marine Mammal Protection Act incident reports — all without waiting for Karen to update a Google Sheet and text it around at 2am. The current system is a disaster. This isn't.
- Real-time volunteer mobilization with role-based dispatch and proximity routing
- Offline-first sync engine that reconciles up to 14 days of divergent field data without conflicts
- Automatic NOAA MMPA incident report generation and submission via the federal eSAFIS gateway
- Full necropsy workflow with tissue sample chain-of-custody tracking from beach to lab
- Dead reckoning geolocation that continues logging stranding coordinates even when GPS drops
NOAA eSAFIS, ITIS Taxonomic Registry, MarineTraffic AIS, CoastWatch ERDDAP, Stranding Network Exchange API, PagerDuty, Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud, ArcGIS Field Maps, TideSync Pro, LabVantage LIMS, VaultBase Chain-of-Custody, BioSpecimen Central
Flense Desk is a microservices system — ingestion, dispatch, sync, and reporting run as independent services behind an internal API gateway, which means one component going down does not take the whole operation with it. Field data is persisted in MongoDB because the document model maps cleanly onto variable necropsy schemas that differ species to species and incident to incident. The offline sync layer uses a vector clock reconciliation strategy over WebSockets, falling back to a background queue when connectivity is unavailable. Everything stateful is replicated; nothing assumes the network exists.
🟢 Production. Actively maintained.
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